Alfred Newman

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Alfred Newman originally came to Hollywood for only three months but stayed to win nine Academy Awards.

During a 40-year career, he wrote more than 300 motion-picture scores and adapted many big Broadway musicals to the screen.

He won his first Academy Award in 1938 — best musical score, for "Alexander's Ragtime Band." He won a similar award in 1940 for "Tin Pan Alley."

He won the award for scoring the 1943 film "Song of Bernadette," followed by subsequent Oscars for "Mother Wore Tights," 1947; "With a Song in My Heart," 1952; "Call Me Madam" in 1953; "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," 1955; "The King and I," 1956; and "Camelot," 1967.

Other films for which he was musical director included "The Captain From Castile," "Carousel," "Flower Drum Song" and "How the West Was Won."

In "The Robe," in 1954, Newman worked for the first time with stereophonic sound. It was a milestone for Newman, who started in Hollywood when sound in films was in its infancy.